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Title:

No Such Thing as a Free Spot: Pricing as a Demand Management Strategy for Parking

Accession Number:

01125256

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper looks at parking policy as a demand-management strategy that should be part of sustainable transportation solutions. Overabundant parking affects urban design and the rational decision-making of individuals for transport mode. A typical parking spot requires 300 feet; parking regulations are a key driver of the proliferation of infrastructure such as surface parking lots and garages. Besides being unaesthetic, inactive places, parking infrastructure represents impervious surface contributing to water management and air pollution in urban areas. This paper considers underpriced parking as a public good which is overconsumed – a public subsidy for drivers which encourages more driving. It looks at the experimental practices of cities revising their parking requirements and/or using pricing to manage occupancy of on-street parking. The case of San Francisco is examined in detail, using a market economics methodology which compares the city’s parking supply to demand, using vehicle counts from a transportation demand model. The market for parking was segmented into hourly, daily, and overnight, with distinct user groups and pricing for each. Although San Francisco County has an inventory of parking spots, this analysis discovered 100,000 uncounted parking spots in the city, demonstrating that planning agencies may lack understanding of their parking supply. Further, the paper traces the emergence of pricing zones in the central city, and examines substitute goods to identify the market value of off-street parking.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-3751

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Broaddus, Andrea

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (2) ; References; Tables (6)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Transportation infrastructure

Geographic Terms:

San Francisco (California)

Subject Areas:

Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-3751

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 8:10PM